TEAM UP WITH THE AUTOBOTS TO SAVE EARTH IN TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED: THE GAME AVAILABLE AT RETAIL STORES TODAY

Activision Publishing, Inc. announced today that TRANSFORMERS Animated: The Game, developed under license from Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE: HAS), is now available in retail stores nationwide. Based on Hasbro and Cartoon Network’s animated television series, TRANSFORMERS Animated: The Game delivers an exciting action-adventure experience, allowing players to take control of their favorite AUTOBOT characters as they work together to reclaim lost fragments of the ALLSPARK, the source of all Transformers life. “TRANSFORMERS Animated: The Game adds to the mystique and success of the Cartoon Network’s animated television series, by extending the TRANSFORMERS universe onto Nintendo DS™,” said Kim Salzer, vice president of global brand management, Activision, Inc. “We are thrilled to continue our incredible collaboration with Hasbro, and bring yet another innovative, interactive experience to fans of this highly-successful TRANSFORMERS franchise.”

Providing an experience that extends beyond the animated series, TRANSFORMERS Animated: The Game thrusts fans into the action with gameplay elements that include platforming, blasting through DECEPTICON-controlled hoverbots, solving side-scrolling puzzles and slot-car racing-inspired driving challenges. Players instantly switch between AUTOBOT team members to work out a number of teamwork-based puzzles in up to 20 different levels. They’ll race through a fictitious 22nd century Detroit, dodging on-coming traffic while seamlessly converting between robot and vehicle-form, utilizing the special abilities of OPTIMUS PRIME, BUMBLEBEE, BULKHEAD and PROWL. Working as a team and combining the abilities of each character is the key to reaching the ultimate goal – intercepting the missing pieces of the ALLSPARK before the DECEPTICONS.

TRANSFORMERS Animated: The Game was developed by Artificial Mind and Movement exclusively for Nintendo DS and is rated “E” (Mild Fantasy Violence) by the ESRB.

its basicly a puzzle adventure. you are Bumblebee Prime and Bulkhead, each having different abilities and you have to switch between bots to work your way through each area

Bumblebee has a megaman x wall jump and his stingers
Prime has his axe and grappler cant jump
Bulkhead has wrecking ball and can push blocks cant jump

a small example of gameplay: you switch between characters as needed, jump up a wall and use Bumblebees stingers to deactivate a lock so Prime can get through a now unlocked door, then use Prime to grapple up a steel girder to smash a switch with his axe so Bulkhead can go through another door and smash through a wall. then use Bumblebee to activate a magnetic crane to move a block that Bulkhead can push onto a pressure plate that activates a elevator. then move Bulkhead and Prime to said elevator so they can catch up with Bumblebee and finish the level. each level is pretty much a combination of puzzles like this. as for enemies each level is filled with stupid drones not even huminoid. you get 3 lives (charges from Sari's key which revives you). Energon Cubes are randomly located around each level to restore health.

certain 3rd person driving missions let you race through the city and as prowl transform and toss ninja stars at either drones or lockdown in car mode who never transforms. another racing mission allows you to race through the city as BB with his boosters

the only boss is Megatron who you have to fight twice. with the combination of puzzle teamwork.

unlockables are just the stock transformation sequences

i liked it but wouldve liked it better as a $20 game rather than a $30 the voice actors made the game for me.